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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week,warning in a post on Xthat the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”.The company’s…
Mark Wahlberg is coming to Disrupt 2026 |
Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in…
India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content |
Pocket FM, an Indian audio storytelling platform, has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year as it increasingly turns…
Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal |
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing — “a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder…
Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation |
Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for…
Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs |
Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest…
Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months |
6:00 AM PDT · September 10, 2026 Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension…
Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B |
In Brief Posted: 11:34 AM PDT · September 9, 2026 Harvey, the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of, has raised another $550…